‘Comical Sally’ ousted after world ridicules regime’s charm tactics

Reem Haddad was sent out to defend the indefensible, but after a series of highly embarrassing performances, the most visible and risible champion of the Syrian regime has apparently been fired.

Ms Haddad, the Syrian Government spokeswoman with the flaming red hair and the genteel English accent, had become an international joke with her passionate, uncompromising and implausible refusal to admit that the Syrian regime is repressing protesters.

Her protestations of official innocence were so laughable, it seems, that Damascus finally realised she was doing more harm than good to the regime’s image.

She made no media appearances yesterday, and the Syrian embassy in London confirmed that she had been removed from her official position as director of Syrian TV and shunted into a lesser…